Star Trek: 10 Things You Didn't Know About B'Elanna Torres

If you're on Instagram, you might already be familiar with Star Trek Logs, a series of voiced in-universe personal logs that began with characters from Star Trek: Discovery in 2020 and then branched out to Star Trek: Lower Decks (seasons two and three) and Star Trek: Prodigy. In one of her personal logs on the Instagram page, released in the week between the episodes Asylum and Let Sleeping Borg Lie, Admiral Janeway states:

It's strange, commanding the Dauntless after years behind a desk. Even its name, suggested by project lead B'Elanna Torres, is a solemn reminder of my previous time in the Delta Quadrant on Voyager.

Voyager made it home in 2378, and Janeway's log above gives the Stardate as 61224.9 i.e., 23rd March 2384. Naturally, B'Elanna's design work on the Dauntless would have happened somewhere in between those two years, which makes this the most up-to-date bit of information we have for the character in canon by our reckoning. And it is canon! The log was penned by Prodigy writer extraordinaire Aaron Waltke, who commented on Twitter that this was "new […] lore and Trek canon," and went on to state that, "it does not contradict what's coming, now or in the future".

For more on the ship itself and its Delta Quadrant alter-ego, the marvellous Clive Burrell is preparing an article dedicated to the Dauntless. Here, we hope (perhaps against hope) for a return to the franchise for B'Elanna, perhaps in Prodigy or, dare we also ask, in Star Trek: Legacy ?